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Dwight Garner’s book recommendations in 2018

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Immaturity in American Politics

The Book Review · 2018-12-07

Milkman by Anna Burns · discussed · at 45:28

Barry Jenkins and Meg Wolitzer on Two of This Season's Novels on Screen

The Book Review · 2018-10-16

The Virgin Suicides (Bloomsbury Classic) by Jeffrey Eugenides · recommended · at 44:50
Deliverance by James Dickey · recommended · at 46:34
The Shining by Stephen King · discussed · at 47:10
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth · discussed · at 49:24

Michael Lewis and Tana French on Their Latest Books

The Book Review · 2018-10-12

Godsend by John Wray · discussed · at 50:51
Terrorist by John Updike · discussed · at 53:10

The End of the ‘Struggle’

The Book Review · 2018-09-28

Crudo by Olivia Laing · discussed · at 46:24

The Most Secretly Interesting Place in America

The Book Review · 2018-09-07

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward · critiqued · at 54:22

Lydia Millet on 'Fight No More'

The Book Review · 2018-08-10

Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe · recommended · at 45:20

True Crime Starring the Creator of Sherlock Holmes

The Book Review · 2018-07-20

Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg · recommended · at 50:14

The Latest in Cyberwarfare

The Book Review · 2018-06-29

Hot milk by Deborah Levy · discussed · at 55:52
Swimming home by Deborah Levy · discussed · at 55:52
The cost of living by Deborah Levy · recommended · at 56:09
How We Die by Sherwin Nuland · discussed · at 59:08

Dinosaurs, the Master of Horror and Philip Roth

The Book Review · 2018-06-01

Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth · discussed · at 51:28

Lost at Sea

The Book Review · 2018-05-18

The new journalism by Tom Wolfe · discussed · at 49:15
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe · discussed · at 50:01
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe · discussed · at 50:12
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe · discussed · at 50:35

There Is Nothin' Like a Tune

The Book Review · 2018-05-04

Motherhood by Sheila Heti · discussed · at 45:31

Jo Nesbo Reimagines ‘Macbeth’

The Book Review · 2018-04-20

The Gulf by Jack Emerson Davis · discussed · at 53:31
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith · discussed · at 57:47

Tara Westover on 'Educated'

The Book Review · 2018-04-06

The Empathy Exams Essays by Leslie Jamison · discussed · at 43:25
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp · discussed · at 48:09
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad · discussed · at 1:06:17

A Marine’s Inventive Memoir

The Book Review · 2018-03-02

A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma · discussed · at 40:22
Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère · discussed · at 55:13

Lisa Halliday on 'Asymmetry'

The Book Review · 2018-02-16

Going for a beer by Robert Coover · discussed · at 43:36

Rose McGowan on 'Brave'

The Book Review · 2018-02-02

Feel Free by Zadie Smith · discussed · at 40:19
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis · discussed · at 40:21

Other mentions in 2018 (9: passing, ad reads, own books)